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When reading a math word problem, your read the words, "INCREASED BY".....solving the problem will likely use:
Addition
Joseph paid $10 less than Ellie. How much did he save? What are 2 clues that tell you to subtract?
less than
John's team scores 32 points during a football game. Alison's team scores 28 points. How many points were scored in total?
60 points
Jesse drives for DoorDash. It took him 24 minutes to make a pizza delivery, 18 minutes to deliver Panda Express, and 12 minutes to deliver boba. How long did it take him to make his deliveries?
54 minutes
When reading a math word problem, your read the word, "DECREASED BY"....means you will solve using:
Subtraction
All of the items in my cart combined came to a total of ________. What are 2 key words that told me to ADD
combined, total of
Drew's team scored 58 points during a basketball game. Jame's team scored 47 points. How many points were scored in total?
105 points
George bought a car for $7,067. This price included a leather package for $1,248 and a heated seats for $269. What was the price of the car without these features?
$5,550
"This many more" means?
addition
Find the difference between 100 and 86.
subtract
Sara scored 2,293 points in a video game. That was 1,536 more than Elvin's score on the same game. How many points did Elvin score?
757 points
At a tire factory, 3,166 tires were made on Thursday and 2,941 tires were made on Friday. How many tires were made on Thursday and Friday in all?
6,107 tires
"How many more than" means?
subtraction
Kody scored 18 points and Clayton scored 12, how many points did they score altogether? What key words tell you which operation to use?
altogether
There are 11,500 seats in the basketball arena. For one game, 9,465 seats were filled. How many seats were empty?
2,035 empty seats
Two years ago, Bob bought a used car that had 4,854 miles on the odometer. Last year, he drove 8,240 miles. This year, he drove 9,273 miles. How many miles does the odometer show now?
22,367 miles